"Killjoy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... made by a member of the Hounslow Burial Committee of courting couples occupying seats in the cemetery. The killjoy! ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, June 20, 1917 • Various
... their tongues went nineteen to the dozen, and the time went so rapidly that a little clock on the chest of drawers became a positive killjoy. ...
— A Chair on The Boulevard • Leonard Merrick
... consent? This is monstrous, Josephine, monstrous. I did not wish to be a killjoy and a marplot, or I would have forbidden Fred to touch a foot-ball after he entered college. Had you, my dear, given me the least bit of support, I should have nipped the whole business in the bud. Yet now you seek to throw the blame ...
— The Opinions of a Philosopher • Robert Grant |
